Saint John Cassian on Prayer series_Pantocrator This is the main icon

This is the main icon of Christ on the Hermitage iconostasis and was painted by a monk at the Hermitage

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by Ralph H Sidway

Monastic Tonsure and Burial

His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon

Saint John Cassian on Prayer series_Pantocrator This is the main iconFor more than sixteen centuries, John Cassian has been honoured by the universal Church as one of the greatest of early monastic writers. The breadth of his experience of eremitical life in the Egyptian desert, his distinction as a theologian and churchman, and especially his veneration for some of the great Desert Fathers are conveyed in the Institutes and Conferences, which continue to be prized as a spiritual resource by Christians in East and